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But they fill out Asian in the US census and not white/caucasian.
If you notice, there is no category in the census for "White/Caucasian" or even "Caucasian."
Punjabis would not usually consider themselves white. "White" typically refers to the fairer skinned peoples of Europe and their descendants. However, "white" does not necessarily equate with "Caucasian," and this is the point!
Hence, Punjabis may not be "white" in the familiar sense of the term, but they are certainly Caucasian, or more specifically: caucasoid. They are certainly not mongoloid.
Get it now?